Monica Lewinsky began her White House employment as an
intern in the Chief of Staff's office in July 1995. At White
House functions in the following months, she made eye contact
with the President. During the November 1995 government
shutdown, the President invited her to his private study, where
they kissed. Later that evening, they had a more intimate sexual
encounter. They had another sexual encounter two days later, and
a third one on New Year's Eve.

Monica Lewinsky worked at the White House, first as an
intern and then as an employee, from July 1995 to April 1996.
With the assistance of family friend Walter Kaye, a prominent
contributor to political causes, she obtained an internship
starting in early July, when she was 21 years old.(131) She was
assigned to work on correspondence in the office of Chief of
Staff Leon Panetta in the Old Executive Office Building.(132)

As her internship was winding down, Ms. Lewinsky applied for
a paying job on the White House staff. She interviewed with
Timothy Keating, Special Assistant to the President and Staff
Director for Legislative Affairs.(133) Ms. Lewinsky accepted a
position dealing with correspondence in the Office of Legislative
Affairs on November 13, 1995, but did not start the job (and,
thus, continued her internship) until November 26.(134) She
remained a White House employee until April 1996, when -- in her
view, because of her intimate relationship with the President --
she was dismissed from the White House and transferred to the
Pentagon.(135)

The month after her White House internship began, Ms.
Lewinsky and the President began what she characterized as
"intense flirting."(136) At departure ceremonies and other events,
she made eye contact with him, shook hands, and introduced
herself.(137) When she ran into the President in the West Wing
basement and introduced herself again, according to Ms. Lewinsky,
he responded that he already knew who she was.(138) Ms. Lewinsky
told her aunt that the President "seemed attracted to her or
interested in her or something," and told a visiting friend that
"she was attracted to [President Clinton], she had a big crush on
him, and I think she told me she at some point had gotten his
attention, that there was some mutual eye contact and
recognition, mutual acknowledgment."(139)

In the autumn of 1995, an impasse over the budget forced the
federal government to shut down for one week, from Tuesday,
November 14, to Monday, November 20.(140) Only essential federal
employees were permitted to work during the furlough, and the
White House staff of 430 shrank to about 90 people for the week.
White House interns could continue working because of their
unpaid status, and they took on a wide range of additional
duties.(141)

During the shutdown, Ms. Lewinsky worked in Chief of Staff
Panetta's West Wing office, where she answered phones and ran
errands.(142) The President came to Mr. Panetta's office frequently
because of the shutdown, and he sometimes talked with Ms.
Lewinsky.(143) She characterized these encounters as "continued
flirtation."(144) According to Ms. Lewinsky, a Senior Adviser to
the Chief of Staff, Barry Toiv, remarked to her that she was
getting a great deal of "face time" with the President.(145)

According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President made eye
contact when he came to the West Wing to see Mr. Panetta and
Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, then again later at an
informal birthday party for Jennifer Palmieri, Special Assistant
to the Chief of Staff.(149) At one point, Ms. Lewinsky and the
President talked alone in the Chief of Staff's office. In the
course of flirting with him, she raised her jacket in the back
and showed him the straps of her thong underwear, which extended
above her pants.(150)

En route to the restroom at about 8 p.m., she passed George
Stephanopoulos's office. The President was inside alone, and he
beckoned her to enter.(151) She told him that she had a crush on
him. He laughed, then asked if she would like to see his private
office.(152) Through a connecting door in Mr. Stephanopoulos's
office, they went through the President's private dining room
toward the study off the Oval Office. Ms. Lewinsky testified:
"We talked briefly and sort of acknowledged that there had been a
chemistry that was there before and that we were both attracted
to each other and then he asked me if he could kiss me." Ms.
Lewinsky said yes. In the windowless hallway adjacent to the
study, they kissed.(153) Before returning to her desk, Ms. Lewinsky
wrote down her name and telephone number for the President.(154)

At about 10 p.m., in Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, she was
alone in the Chief of Staff's office and the President
approached.(155) He invited her to rendezvous again in Mr.
Stephanopoulos's office in a few minutes, and she agreed.(156)
(Asked if she knew why the President wanted to meet with her, Ms.
Lewinsky testified: "I had an idea."(157)) They met in Mr.
Stephanopoulos's office and went again to the area of the private
study.(158) This time the lights in the study were off.(159)

According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President kissed.
She unbuttoned her jacket; either she unhooked her bra or he
lifted her bra up; and he touched her breasts with his hands and
mouth.(160) Ms. Lewinsky testified: "I believe he took a phone
call . . . and so we moved from the hallway into the back office
. . . . [H]e put his hand down my pants and stimulated me
manually in the genital area."(161) While the President continued
talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was
a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral sex on
him.(162) He finished his call, and, a moment later, told Ms.
Lewinsky to stop. In her recollection: "I told him that I
wanted . . . to complete that. And he said . . . that he needed
to wait until he trusted me more. And then I think he made a
joke . . . that he hadn't had that in a long time."(163)

Both before and after their sexual contact during that
encounter, Ms. Lewinsky and the President talked.(164) At one point
during the conversation, the President tugged on the pink intern
pass hanging from her neck and said that it might be a problem.
Ms. Lewinsky thought that he was talking about access -- interns
were not supposed to be in the West Wing without an escort --
and, in addition, that he might have discerned some "impropriety"
in a sexual relationship with a White House intern.(165)

White House records corroborate details of Ms. Lewinsky's
account. She testified that her November 15 encounters with the
President occurred at about 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., and that in each
case the two of them went from the Chief of Staff's office to the
Oval Office area.(166) Records show that the President visited the
Chief of Staff's office for one minute at 8:12 p.m. and for two
minutes at 9:23 p.m., in each case returning to the Oval
Office.(167) She recalled that the President took a telephone call
during their sexual encounter, and she believed that the caller
was a Member of Congress or a Senator.(168) White House records
show that after returning to the Oval Office from the Chief of
Staff's office, the President talked to two Members of Congress:
Rep. Jim Chapman from 9:25 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Rep. John
Tanner from 9:31 p.m. to 9:35 p.m.(169)

We were again working late because it was during the
furlough and Jennifer Palmieri . . . had ordered pizza along
with Ms. Currie and Ms. Hernreich. And when the pizza came,
I went down to let them know that the pizza was there and it
was at that point when I walked into Ms. Currie's office
that the President was standing there with some other people
discussing something.

And they all came back to the office and Mr. -- I think
it was Mr. Toiv, somebody accidentally knocked pizza on my
jacket, so I went to go use the restroom to wash it off and
as I was coming out of the restroom, the President was
standing in Ms. Currie's doorway and said, "You can come out
this way."(172)

Ms. Lewinsky and the President went into the area of the private
study, according to Ms. Lewinsky. There, either in the hallway
or the bathroom, she and the President kissed. After a few
minutes, in Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, she told him that she
needed to get back to her desk. The President suggested that she
bring him some slices of pizza.(173)

A few minutes later, she returned to the Oval Office area
with pizza and told Ms. Currie that the President had requested
it. Ms. Lewinsky testified: "[Ms. Currie] opened the door and
said, 'Sir, the girl's here with the pizza.' He told me to come
in. Ms. Currie went back into her office and then we went into
the back study area again."(174) Several witnesses confirm that
when Ms. Lewinsky delivered pizza to the President that night,
the two of them were briefly alone.(175)

Ms. Lewinsky testified that she and the President had a
sexual encounter during this visit.(176) They kissed, and the
President touched Ms. Lewinsky's bare breasts with his hands and
mouth.(177) At some point, Ms. Currie approached the door leading
to the hallway, which was ajar, and said that the President had a
telephone call.(178) Ms. Lewinsky recalled that the caller was a
Member of Congress with a nickname.(179) While the President was on
the telephone, according to Ms. Lewinsky, "he unzipped his pants
and exposed himself," and she performed oral sex.(180) Again, he
stopped her before he ejaculated.(181)

During this visit, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President
told her that he liked her smile and her energy. He also said:
"I'm usually around on weekends, no one else is around, and you
can come and see me."(182)

Records corroborate Ms. Lewinsky's recollection that the
President took a call from a Member of Congress with a nickname.
While Ms. Lewinsky was at the White House that evening (9:38 to
10:39 p.m.), the President had one telephone conversation with a
Member of Congress: From 9:53 to 10:14 p.m., he spoke with Rep.
H.L. "Sonny" Callahan.(183)

In his Jones deposition on January 17, 1998, President
Clinton -- who said he was unable to recall most of his
encounters with Ms. Lewinsky -- did remember her "back there with
a pizza" during the government shutdown. He said, however, that
he did not believe that the two of them were alone.(184) Testifying
before the grand jury on August 17, 1998, the President said that
his first "real conversation" with Ms. Lewinsky occurred during
the November 1995 furlough. He testified: "One night she
brought me some pizza. We had some remarks."(185)

Sometime between noon and 1 p.m., in Ms. Lewinsky's
recollection, she was in the pantry area of the President's
private dining room talking with a White House steward, Bayani
Nelvis. She told Mr. Nelvis that she had recently smoked her
first cigar, and he offered to give her one of the President's
cigars. Just then, the President came down the hallway from the
Oval Office and saw Ms. Lewinsky. The President dispatched Mr.
Nelvis to deliver something to Mr. Panetta.(188)

According to Ms. Lewinsky, she told the President that Mr.
Nelvis had promised her a cigar, and the President gave her
one.(189) She told him her name -- she had the impression that he
had forgotten it in the six weeks since their furlough encounters
because, when passing her in the hallway, he had called her
"Kiddo."(190) The President replied that he knew her name; in fact,
he added, having lost the phone number she had given him, he had
tried to find her in the phonebook.(191)

According to Ms. Lewinsky, they moved to the study. "And
then . . . we were kissing and he lifted my sweater and exposed
my breasts and was fondling them with his hands and with his
mouth."(192) She performed oral sex.(193) Once again, he stopped her
before he ejaculated because, Ms. Lewinsky testified, "he didn't
know me well enough or he didn't trust me yet."(194)

According to Ms. Lewinsky, a Secret Service officer named
Sandy was on duty in the West Wing that day.(195) Records show that
Sandra Verna was on duty outside the Oval Office from 7 a.m. to 2
p.m.(196)